Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 07:38:48 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>, Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, papowell@astart.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20000630073848.C65332@bone.nectar.com> In-Reply-To: <v0421012fb581cfdf2938@[128.113.24.47]>; from drosih@rpi.edu on Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 12:23:27AM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006282101000.590-100000@picnic.mat.net> <v0421012fb581cfdf2938@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 12:23:27AM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > [this says nothing about how much stuff lprng or apsfilter > brings in, of course. I'm just not sure why one would fire > up ghostscript to print gif images...] For the record, LPRng per se has only a very simple filter for handling CR <-> CR/LF issues. Fancy filters are supplied by IFHP, including e.g. PostScript -> PCL conversion using GhostScript. While I'm wasting bandwidth, I'll just say that if LPRng were available under the BSD license, I would be in favor of importing it. It is much nicer from an administrative point of view, even without any fancy filters. If it were imported, IFHP could also be imported or it could remain a port. I tend to think that the latter would be better. -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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